I have mentioned this before but here we go again.
There is no point doing petitions to get fuel companys to sell e85. Don't you think that if there was a way a fuel company could make more money they would be there making it?
Its not that they don't want to sell E85 its because the cost outlay to get the servo's fuel tank prepared and converted over to e85 is very expensive, it cost Rozelle $40,000 to upgrade the servo to stock E85 and the only reason why they have gone through this trouble is because they have a contract to supply E85 for CSR's company cars so they will be able to continually sell the fuel to make the money back.
Thats why all the other servo's had to stop selling E85 is because they have not had the required upgrades and you could just think about it like this, when could a independant servo be able to afford $40,000 just so they can make 1c a litre of sales from E85.. How many litres of fuel would they have to sell to make the money back before making a profit ?
a hell of alot, for the moment I think we are pretty lucky that United have offered E85 in few outlets they have so we have been able to do some testing and learn a bit out ethanol and even more so we are very lucky that they are selling it to the public as well! yes it does have a great potential but I just don't think that we will be seeing more outlets in the near future just because of this legal requirement to sell e85.
Does anyone know what happens to the E85 that stored in a non approved tank? the extra water that gets in there would be a concern has there been any tests ? do we know for sure what happens to the fuel in non converted tanks? whats the whole reason behind all this bullshit???.
I think that would be the place to start you might get more traction that way.
just something to think about.